“SAYS the Frenchman. “How long has it been since you last killed anything?”He’s fucking with me. He knows the answer, but he wants to make me say it. Father Vidocq taking confession.“I don’t know. What time is it?”“That long, then?”I shrug.Vidocq and I are in a very dark room in a very large house full of very fashionable furniture and we’re stealing something very valuable. I have no idea what and pretty much don’t care. It’s just nice to be hanging out and doing some crimes with the old man. C...rimes where no one ends up zombie meat, shot, or annoyingly decapitated.“It’s been a while,” I say. “Six. Eight weeks. Somewhere around there.”I slipped us into the house through a shadow. Vidocq is working on the wall safe. He’s good with safes. He’s had over a hundred years of practice.“So, no crusades? No great wrongs that need to be righted?”I reach into my pocket for a cigarette, then remember there might be smoke alarms.“Nothing worth killing for. I’m no cop.MoreLessRead More Read Less
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